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This timely volume brings together the work of some of India?s leading feminist economists historians political scientists journalists and anthropologists to investigate the contemporary situation of women in India It focuses on four broad domains the cultural the social the political and the economic The writers argue that despite apparently positive indicators of progress in education and paid employment women?s status has not improved Karin Kapadia has taught at the London School of Economics the School of Oriental and African Studies and at the Universities of Sussex and Durham Her publications include Siva and Her Sisters Gender Caste and Class in Rural South India The Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour co-edited and Rural Labour Relations in India co-edited From January 1999 to November 2001 she worked at the World Bank Washington DC as the South Asia Region Coordinator for Gender and Development 512 pp.